By way of PTI
MUMBAI: Enthusiasts of Lata Mangeshkar are upset after the melody queen was once now not incorporated within the ‘In Memoriam’ segment of the sixty fourth Annual Grammy Awards.
The absence of the mythical Indian playback singer from the 2022 Grammys rite, hung on early Monday morning in Las Vegas, comes per week after the Academy Awards unnoticed Mangeshkar from its homage phase as neatly.
Mangeshkar, the voice of generations of Indians, died on January 6 because of a couple of organ screw ups. She was once 92.
The fanatics took to Twitter to criticise the Recording Academy, the establishment that conducts Hollywood’s largest musical awards evening, for omitting Mangeshkar’s title.
Calling out the Grammys for honouring simplest American tune, a consumer stated the development felt “futile and insignificant”.
“A bit unrelated, but if they had been paying tributes to artists who kicked the bucket this yr and there was once no point out of Lata Mangeshkar- India’s maximum beloved singer, all of it felt so futile and insignificant. Those displays don’t have any regard for ‘international’ music- simplest American.”
Any other wrote: “So each the Oscars and the Grammys did not honor the past due nice Lata Mangeshkar of their respective memoriam segments? That is a disgrace. #GrammyAwards #Oscars”
A tweeple stated now not simply Mangeshkar, the Grammys additionally unnoticed veteran tune composer Bappi Lahiri (69).
Lahiri died of obstructive sleep apnea on January 15, days after Mangeshkar’s dying.
“#GRAMMYs did not pay tribute to the best singer of Indian historical past: #LataMangeshkar or #bappilahiri.”
The ‘In Memoriam’ phase of the Grammys paid tributes to mythical drummer of Foo Warring parties Taylor Hawkins, Hollywood performing greats Sidney Poitier and Betty White, singer-actors Meat Loaf, Vicente Fernandez, jazz composer Chick Corea, amongst many others.
In step with ETOnline, whilst the display reportedly started with a listing of masses of names to perhaps come with, the period of the phase required them to pare down the general listing of the ones to be incorporated.
A a lot more complete listing is featured at the GRAMMYs web site, which additionally does now not point out Mangeshkar or Lahiri.
Remaining week, the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences, which organises the Academy Awards, had additionally unnoticed cinema icon Dilip Kumar from its ‘In Memoriam’ listing.
Then again, at its 2022 version, the British Academy of Movie and Tv Awards (BAFTA) featured Mangeshkar within the ‘In Memoriam’ phase and described the tune icon as “an Indian playback singer, who recorded an estimated 25,000 songs for greater than 1,000 Hindi movies over a profession spanning 70 years”.
